San Francisco Ceramic Circle
August 12th, 1999 Meeting
"Revolution in Taste"
JANINE SKERRY
Curator of Ceramics and Glass
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
The August meeting of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle will
be held on Thursday, 12th August in the Florence Gould Theater
at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, San Francisco.
Entrance is from the West terrace from 7.30pm. The lecture will
start at 8.00pm.
Our speaker will be Janine Skerry, Curator of Ceramics and
Glass at Colonial Williamsburg. Her lecture is entitled "Revolution
in Taste".
The mini-exhibit will be of 18th and early 19th cenrury British
ceramic wares. Set up is at 7.30pm
About the lecture:
This talk will survey the range of ceramic tableware available
in Britain and America from the early 18th to the early 19th century.
Particular emphasis will be given to the influences of the Far
East and of nature as design inspirations and the impact of new
technologies such as transfer printing will be considered. The
talk will conclude with a look at dining and drinking customs
during this period.
About our speaker:
Janine Skerry has served as Curator of Ceramics and Glass
at the Colonial Williamsburg Foudation in Williamsburg,Virginia
since 1993. She holds a bachelors degree from Yale and a Masters
degree in Early American Culture from the Winterthur Program and
the University of Delaware. Prior to joining the staff at Colonial
Williamsburg she served in various positions at Historic Deerfield
in Massachusetts, the Yale University Art Museum, and the Peabody
Museum and Essex Institute in Salem. Ms. Skerry has written numerous
article on and lectured widely on ceramics and silver in America.
She is currently preparing an exhibition entitled "Identifying
Ceramics: the Who, What and Ware" scheduled to open at Colonial
Williamsburg in early 2000.
Future S.F.C.C. programs:
9/16/99 Michael Sack "Exotic Scenes on English Blue and
White Transfer Ware and their Print Sources"
10/18/99 ( Monday) John Sandon "Ceramics from the Collection
of Dr, Bernard Watney"
11/19/99 ( Friday ) Dr. Alan Darr "Innovations during
the Twilight of Florence: Eighteenth-Century Sculpture in Doccia
Porcelain"